Bush's Appeal for Private Contributions to Iraq
You will be happy to know that the President’s appeal for private contributions to help Iraq has been met with a grand total of about $600.
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Haliburton Taking Good Care of Our Troops
Not only did Halliburton’s KBR subsidiary serve U.S. troops in Iraq spoiled food (sometimes a year past the expiration date), but also contaminated water from Iraq’s Euphrates River, containing “numerous pathogenic organisms” at nearly two times the normal contamination levels of untreated water. “[R]aw sewage is routinely dumped less than two miles from the water intake location.”
Read more$1 Billion Stolen From Iraq's Defense Ministry
The Iraq Defense Ministry is the victim of one of the largest thefts in history. One billion dollars meant to buy arms from Pakistan and Poland was siphoned off, resulting in overpayment for inferior equipment such as “armoured cars…so poorly made that even a bullet from an elderly AK-47 machine-gun could penetrate their armour.”
Read moreAn American Finds Her Voice
Cindy Sheehan was on Bill Maher’s show last night. When Maher asked her jokingly that if she didn’t get satisfaction from George Bush, would she go over his head to Cheney or Rumsfeld, she replied:
Read moreGary Hart Asks, Who Will Lead?
In a great piece in the Washington Post, Gary Hart chastises the current crop of Democrats for not standing up, admitting they were wrong to vote for the war in Iraq, and not going to the American people with the truth.
Read moreIf You're Not For Me, You're Against America
Editor and Publisher has the story, but in their usual attempt to distract and control the message, W now says that you have a right to your opinion, but if your opinion doesn’t match his, you don’t love America.
Read moreMy Take on Cindy Sheehan's Vigile
This is about how we should think about Cindy Sheehan, the woman who has been standing outside the President’s Crawford, Texas ranch in hopes of having a chat with him. Her son, Casey, died in Iraq. He was 24.
Read moreRice Delusional About Iraq.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the insurgency in Iraq is losing steam as a political force, even as Democratic congressmen warned Sunday that violence jeopardizes plans for withdrawing some troops.
Read morePentagon Whistleblower Takes It On The Chin
Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse is the Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting (“PARC” in the alphabet soup of military acronyms) in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Unfortunately, she has had the temerity to question the Haliburton contracts, and as such, she’s now persona non-Grata at the Pentagon.
Read moreFraud On The American Public – Spreading Freedom and Democracy
According to two former Air Force prosecutors, Maj. John Carr and Maj. Robert Preston those tribunals are rigged both resigned rather than take part. As Maj. Preston wrote in an e-mail to his superiors, “I consider the insistence on pressing ahead with cases that would be marginal even if properly prepared to be a severe threat to the reputation of the military justice system and even a fraud on the American people.”
Read moreIraq War Vets Not Qualified to Serve In Congress
This is bad, seriously. Paul Hackett is running as the first Iraq war vet to run for Congress, and now his GOP opponent, Jean Schmidt, just said that being an American vet from the Iraq war is the wrong kind of experience for a member of Congress.
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